Democracy’s Damndest Defamation by James Bovard , September 4, 2024 In a democracy, people automatically become liable for whatever the government inflicts upon them. Many of the most deadly errors of contemporary political thinking stem from the notion that in a democracy the government is the people and vice versa, so there is scant reason […]
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Janet Reno Is No Hero
Reason Magazine, January 2024 Janet Reno Is No Hero A new biography by Judith Hicks Stiehm ignores Janet Reno’s many failures as attorney general. James Bovard | From the January 2024 issue Janet Reno: A Life, by Judith Hicks Stiehm, University Press of Florida, 224 pages, $35\ In April 24, 2000, a day after Easter […]
Visiting the Ghosts of Waco
Visiting the Ghosts of Waco by Jim Bovard | Nov 13, 2023 After decades of writing about the greatest atrocity of 1993, I finally visited Waco last week. I was traveling with a friend who was hepped up on seeing Waco’s most popular tourist site—Magnolia, a massive shopping complex spawned by an HGTV program on […]
Biden Demagogues Florida Massacre to Demonize Gun Owners
Libertarian Institute, June 13, 2023 Biden Demagogues Florida Massacre to Demonize Gun Owners by James Bovard President Joe Biden tweeted yesterday on what he called “Pulse Remembrance Day”: Seven years ago today, our nation suffered what was then the deadliest mass shooting in American history. Forty-nine people, predominantly Latino LGBTQI+ people, lost their lives in […]
Talking Taxes, Federal Idiocy, Waco, etc. on Podcast with Brian Wilson
On this week’s podcast with Brian Wilson, I reveal my counter-offer to ABC on shaving my beard. We reveal the secret behind “voluntary” income taxes and smack around idiotic cabinet secretaries and the Biden administration’s opposition to a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine. The 30th anniversary of the FBI final assault at Waco rounds out […]
Scott Horton’s Greatest Waco Hits
Scott Horton’s Greatest Waco Hits by Jim Bovard | Apr 19, 2023 Thirty years ago, Waco radicalized a teenage grocery clerk in Austin, Texas. Scott Horton was horrified both by the televised carnage of the FBI assault and by the mindless support for the feds he heard voiced by suburban housewives. Unlike the national media, […]
30 Years Later, Waco is Still Damning
30 Years Later, Waco is Still Damning by Jim Bovard | Apr 18, 2023 Thirty years ago, FBI tanks smashed into the ramshackle home of the Branch Davidians outside Waco, Texas. After the FBI collapsed much of the building atop the residents, a fire erupted and 76 corpses were dug out of the rubble. Unfortunately, […]